Unschooling Future Podcast: Recent Episodes
Sophia KORNIENKO
The new season of the UnschoolingFuture Podcast is devoted to children on the internet, their digital rights and access to information.
It's because I’m writing and illustrating a (comic) book about kids’ and teens’ freedom to self-direct their online learning, titled Free to Browse.
When we talk about self-directed learning, we always talk about it in terms of educational experiences, how life learning can be very educationally enriching and how it prepares kids for the future. Is that really what is most important about self-directed education? Why do we feel the need to try to sell young people’s formative experiences as “academic” or “educational”?
Ben Draper, a former MIT fellow and the founder/ executive director of the Macomber Center in Framingham, MA, a self-directed learning community for ages 5 to 18, believes that children who grow up with their basic needs being met will have the tools they need when they get older to figure out how to continue to create the kind of life they want to live. In this episode, Ben and I tried to come to the core of how self-directed learning unfolds today and the role digital technology plays in that delicate process.
This season of the UnschoolingFuture Podcast is devoted to children on the internet, their digital rights and access to information. It's because I’m writing and illustrating a (comic) book about kids’ and teens’ freedom to self-direct their online learning, titled Free to Browse.
For this episode, I had the honor to sit down with my long time hero Peter Gray, research professor at Boston College, famous for his studies of children’s play and self-directed learning.
What are the actual reasons why children and teens are so stressed out? By controlling their online lives, are we taking the last vestige of freedom that children and teens had? What is the tipping point theory of social change and when can we expect a wider acceptance of children’s ability to self-direct their learning and possibly less discrimination of youngsters as a minority?
The whole season 3 of the UnschoolingFuture Podcast will be devoted to kids’ and teens’ digital rights and access to information. This is because I’m writing and illustrating a (comic) book about kids’ and teens’ freedom to self-direct their online learning. The book will be called Free to Browse. For this episode, I sat down with the digital freedoms nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). I hope you enjoy this conversation with Bill Budington, senior staff technologist on EFF's Public Interest Technology team and Jason Kelley, EFF’s associate director of digital strategy.
Host: Sophia Kornienko, writer/ animation artist/ unschooling mom
Co-hosts:
Martha Skinner, former professor of architecture, artist who works together with her daughter, now a young adult
Marta Obiols Llistar, unschooling mom of three, educator, author of the book 18, An Unschooling Experience
Resources:
Felix Marquardt, The New Nomads. How the Migration Revolution is Making the World a Better Place. Simon & Schuster UK, 2021
Cassidy George, The ancient origins of the new nomads, BBC, 21 August 2021
Aldous Huxley, Science, Liberty and Peace. T. and A. CONSTABLE LTD. Printers to the University of Edinburgh, 1950
Host: Sophia Kornienko, writer/ animation artist/ unschooling mom
Co-hosts:
Martha Skinner, former professor of architecture, artist who works together with her daughter, now a young adult
Marta Obiols Llistar, unschooling mom of three, educator, author of the book 18, An Unschooling Experience
Guest Speaker:
Bovy Wongwattanakit, entrepreneur, educator, education solution developer, founder of Heyah Tribe
Host: Sophia Kornienko, writer/ animation artist/ unschooling mom
Co-host:
Marta Obiols Llistar, unschooling mom of three, educator, author of the book 18, An Unschooling Experience
Resources:
The Matt Walker Podcast https://www.sleepdiplomat.com/podcast
Matt Walker: Sleep | Lex Fridman Podcast #210 https://youtu.be/Hc4XvHTlW3s
Automated Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (AutoMEQ), New York State Psychiatric Institute
Juliann Garey, Teens and Sleep: The Cost of Sleep Deprivation: Lack of adequate sleep is linked to moodiness, risky behavior and injuries.Child Mind Institute
Danielle Pacheco, Can you Change Your Circadian Rhythm?Sleep Foundation
Molly Worthen, ‘When You Get Into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion’, The New York Times, September 25, 2020
Gina Riley, Ph.D. is an educational psychologist, Clinical Professor, and Program Leader of the Adolescent Special Education Program at CUNY – Hunter College. She is known internationally for her work in the fields of homeschooling, unschooling, and self-directed learning. Check out her publications here: https://education.hunter.cuny.edu/about/faculty-staff/gina-riley/
Host: Sophia Kornienko, writer/ animation artist/ unschooling mom
Co-hosts:
Martha Skinner, former professor of architecture, artist who works together with her daughter, now a young adult
Marta Obiols Llistar, unschooling mom of three, educator, author of the book 18, An Unschooling Experience
Resources:
Alan Gratz, Refugee. Scholastic Corporation, 2017.
Davide Cali, Serge Bloch, The Enemy. Schwartz & Wade, April 14, 2009
Art Spiegelman, The complete MAUS Paperback. Pinguin, 2003
The Big History Project https://www.bighistoryproject.com/home
Host: Sophia Kornienko, writer/ animation artist/ unschooling mom
Guest Speaker:
Agustin Cortes, a self-taught co-founder of http://Lirn.io, building a web3 protocol that will help learners to track and validate their online educational journey
Co-hosts:
Martha Skinner, former professor of architecture, artist who works together with her daughter, now a young adult
Marta Obiols Llistar, unschooling mom of three, educator, author of the book 18, An Unschooling Experience
Resources:
Scott Meyer, Blair Rorani, Vriti Saraf, Atish Mistry, From Web3 to Ed3 - Reimagining Education in a Decentralized World. December 14, 2021.
https://ed3.mirror.xyz/0U3QG8-4K6CD_ltU6SJyKN3-uBD3x6nEFs-YeShzYmk
Scott Meyer, Strategic DAO Frameworks: The Meyer Matrix and Smiling Dao Curve. February 8, 2022.
https://ed3.mirror.xyz/-ko2xt89AlznNaEtnwE5WvyOnsMdetFc33H8WtslMNo
Kassen Qian, DAOs as University Replacements: A Thought Experiment. Thoughts on building university experiences in web3. September 9, 2021.
https://kassen.substack.com/p/daos-as-university-replacements-a?utm_source=url
Rebecca Koenig, What Could Web3 Mean for Education? January 24, 2022 https://www.edsurge.com/news/2022-01-24-what-could-web3-mean-for-education
Jennifer Cook DeRosa, Homeschooling for College Credit: A Parent's Guide to Resourceful High School Planning. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018
Lex Fridman’s interview with Elon Musk. December 28, 2021 https://youtu.be/DxREm3s1scA
Sir Ken Robinson, Changing Educational Paradigms (by RSA ANIMATE). October 14, 2010 https://youtu.be/zDZFcDGpL4U
Sugata Mitra, Can Kids Teach Themselves? August 27, 2008 https://youtu.be/xRb7_ffl2D0
Sugata Mitra, The Hole in the Wall and Beyond. March 1, 2017 https://youtu.be/svWynGmBQb0
Mirror https://mirror.xyz/
CCS (Srypto, Culture & Society) https://cryptosociety.notion.site/
InvisibleCollege https://www.invisiblecollege.xyz/
RabbitHole https://rabbithole.gg/
Friends with Benefits https://www.fwb.help/
Eduverse (Metaverse Hub for Educators) https://www.k20educators.com/
CryptoCollege https://cryptocollege.latecheckout.studio/
MintGate https://www.mintgate.io/
Host: Sophia Kornienko, writer/ animation artist/ unschooling mom
Co-hosts:
Martha Skinner, former professor of architecture, artist who works together with her daughter, now a young adult
Marta Obiols Llistar, unschooling mom of three, educator, author of the book 18, An Unschooling Experience
Resources:
William Stixrud, Ned Johnson. The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives, Penguin Books, 2019.
Martha Skinner’s TEDx Talk: The Exponential Power of Design https://tedxgreenville.com/portfolio/martha-skinner/
Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. Penguin Random House, 2020.
Learn Transcendental Meditation https://www.tm.org/learn-tm
Host: Sophia Kornienko, writer/ animation artist/ unschooling mom
Co-hosts:
Martha Skinner, former professor of architecture, artist who works together with her daughter, now a young adult
Marta Obiols Llistar, unschooling mom of three, educator, author of the book 18, An Unschooling Experience
Resources:
Edwin H. Friedman, Margaret M. Treadwell, Edward W. Beal. “A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix”, Church Publishing, Inc., 2007.
Robert Epstein. What Makes a Good Parent? Scientific American Mind, Special Collectors Edition. Raise Great Kids: How to Help Them Thrive in School and Life. Vol. 25, No.2, summer 2016.
William Stixrud, Ned Johnson. The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives, Penguin Books, 2019.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged. 1957.
Jean Liedloff. The Continuum Concept, Da Capo Press, 1975.
Host: Sophia Kornienko, writer/ animation artist/ unschooling mom
Co-hosts:
Martha Skinner, former professor of architecture, artist who works together with her daughter, now a young adult
Marta Obiols Llistar, unschooling mom of three, educator, author of the book 18, An Unschooling Experience
Resources:
Brian Sutton-Smith. Play Theory. A Personal Journey and New Thoughts. American Journal of Play, Summer 2008: https://www.museumofplay.org/app/uploads/2022/01/1-1-article-sutton-smith-play-theory.pdf
Play as Preparation for Learning and Life. An Interview with Peter Gray. American Journal of Play, Spring 2013: https://www.journalofplay.org/sites/www.journalofplay.org/files/pdf-articles/5-3-interview-play-as-preparation.pdf
Peter Gray, Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life. Basic Books, 2013
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged. 1957.
Fajans, Jane. They Make Themselves: Work and Play Among the Baining of Papua New Guinea. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Host: Sophia Kornienko, writer/animation artist, unschooling mom of two
Co-hosts:
Martha Skinner, former professor of architecture, artist who works together with her daughter, now a young adult
Marta Obiols Llistar, unschooling mom of three, educator, author of the book 18, An Unschooling Experience
Host: Sophia Kornienko, writer/ animation artist, unschooling mom of two
Guest: Simon Tiger Houben
Amsterdam has declared it will be the first city to adopt the sustainable 'doughnut' model to mend its post-coronavirus economy. I am fascinated with the opportunities reimagining our future in my home city of Amsterdam and other communities across the world will bring. However I don’t think any of it will be possible without thoroughly reimagining education, outside of the existing industrialised educational system.